Robinson's Myth and Avatars

Tom Hanks, in Robert Zemeckis's movie Cast Away, 2001.

Ada Blackjack was an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic expedition to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, eventually living alone on the island for eight months after the other expedition members left or died.

Living Wild is a group of 21st-century hunter-gatherers who rediscovers the traditional living skills of the Paleolithic. The movement is spearheaded by a woman named Lynx Vilden and unified by the ambition to leave modernity and return to primitive living.